What's the difference between bus and feather?

Bus


Definition:

  • (n.) An omnibus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (2) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (3) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
  • (4) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
  • (5) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
  • (6) Scoble shook his head, suggesting that by showing his Glass to "more than 600 people: bus drivers, school teachers..." he (and thus Google) is getting feedback from a wider demographic group.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bus belching smoke in Bogotá Pretty dirty.
  • (8) Violence also flared before the game when 300 Torino fans tried to block the Juventus team bus from entering the stadium compound and threw stones at the vehicle, breaking one of its windows.
  • (9) This question was answered, from the standpoint of human postures, by observing the antagonistic postures exhibited by a bus-driver and a passenger, and also by the findings in postrotatory eye nystagmus (an indication of artificial motion sickness) which was varied according to the three different positions of the head.
  • (10) After eating, the report says, Castro "returned to the bus and drove around for a while.
  • (11) Measurements were carried out in a street reserved for diesel-engine bus traffic for concentrations of suspended dust, the distribution of aerosol particles according to size (0.01-25 microns) and the CO, HC and NOx concentrations.
  • (12) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
  • (13) It’s one of the social benefits government bestows on the old, like free bus passes and the winter fuel allowance,” she added.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Passengers arriving at the main bus station can borrow a bike all day for free.
  • (15) Bloody errors at civilians' expense, as recorded in the logs, include the day French troops strafed a bus full of children in 2008, wounding eight.
  • (16) It appears to be as much about educating and inspiring young people through its direct work on the bus tour.
  • (17) Val Shawcross, Labour's transport spokeswoman on the London assembly, said the anticipated loss of revenue almost matched the £60m the mayor, who chairs Transport for London, had raised by increasing bus fares in the capital.
  • (18) Ole Tommy Pedersen was standing at a bus stop 100 metres from the government high-rise when the explosion occurred.
  • (19) "When the bus doesn't come our children, especially those who work under a very strict routine, become very anxious, so we have lots of anxious children and equally anxious families."
  • (20) The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and instead drove her, the only passenger on the bus, to a remote farmhouse where he and the bus conductor were joined by five friends.

Feather


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
  • (n.) Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
  • (n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
  • (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
  • (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
  • (n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
  • (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone.
  • (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a feather or feathers, as an arrow or a cap.
  • (v. t.) To adorn, as with feathers; to fringe.
  • (v. t.) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
  • (v. t.) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
  • (v. t.) To tread, as a cock.
  • (v. i.) To grow or form feathers; to become feathered; -- often with out; as, the birds are feathering out.
  • (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers
  • (v. i.) To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars.
  • (v. i.) To have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
  • (2) Sexually mature males have long, 'feathered' tails as compared with females.
  • (3) HVT-specific immunofluorescent antigen was detected in the feather follicle epithelium (FFE) and in the surface layer of the skin epidermis.
  • (4) This is a team who have found their feet after that winless group section, a side who have already seen off the much admired Croatia and who can ruffle the feathers of the hosts or the reigning world champions.
  • (5) The most consistently sensational evidence from Icac has been around former Labor member Eddie Obeid and the influence he wielded in the NSW Labor government to feather his own nest.
  • (6) However, feather loss (in one test) was associated with escape and avoidance behavior of groups; stepwise increases in fearfulness with increasing group size were associated with similar increases in loss of feathers.
  • (7) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
  • (8) If that effect existed in small animals, they would lose less heat if nude than if fur or feathers were present.
  • (9) Daily subcutaneous injection of L-dopa for 4 weeks into 2-year-old low egg production hens resulted in a lightening of feather color to snow white and increased oviduct and ovary weights and the development of well developed follicles.
  • (10) Hatched chicks were small and had pale feathers, skin, skeletal muscles, bone marrow, and viscera.
  • (11) During feather follicle formation, N-CAM was expressed in the dermal papilla and was closely apposed to the L-CAM-positive papillar ectoderm, while the dermal papilla showed no evidence of laminin or fibronectin.
  • (12) One hundred forty-two allergic children aged three to 18 years were studied for evaluation of the usefulness of skin testing with influenza vaccine as a means of identifying those children who could be immunized safely despite their allergies to chickens, eggs, or feathers.
  • (13) The Glasman "project" will undoubtedly ruffle feathers inside and outside Labour.
  • (14) Successful colonization and invasion of experimentally inoculated feathers required addition of moisture and elevation of relative humidity within the cultures.
  • (15) Injections of ovine prolactin during the pause-inducing procedure significantly reduced the subsequent rate of loss of primary wing feathers, suggesting that in certain physiological states, PRL may function to suppress molting.
  • (16) The endogenous virus, ev6, markedly reduced recovery of the endogenous virus (EV21) from plasmas of slow-feathering chickens.
  • (17) The very first collection we worked on together was called The Birds, and when he got the Givenchy job and we went to Paris, and he got to see what the Givenchy ateliers could do with feathers, he was just blown away.” The photographer Anne Deniau, who took many portraits of McQueen and whose camera was from 1997 to 2010 the only one allowed backstage at McQueen shows, felt that he loved “the lightness, the delicacy, of feathers.
  • (18) Retinal pigmented epithelium of White Leghorn chick embryos did not give rise to pigmentation of feather primordia in the hosts.
  • (19) The type of curve described by a feather is characteristic of its tensile properties and its degree of softness.
  • (20) Total amino acid flow to the duodenum was 19.3 and 15.6% higher for cows fed the feather meal and combined meal diets, respectively, compared with the soybean meal diet.